which was a time period in Columbia when it was prevalent for drug kingpins to use soccer clubs to launder their money. One of the most infamous kingpins was Pablo Escobar. Pablo was typically known as a murderer in Columbia‚ but did have one passion in life‚ and that was soccer. The other Escobar‚ Andres‚ who had no blood relation to Pablo‚ was the star defensive player for Columbia’s soccer team. One thing these two had in common‚ besides their last name‚ was that the people in Columbia disliked
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The Two Escobar Jeff Zimbalist and Michael Zimbalist While rival drug cartels warred in the streets and the country’s murder rate climbed to highest in the world‚ the Colombian national soccer team set out to blaze a new image for their country. What followed was a mysteriously rapid rise to glory‚ as the team catapulted out of decades of obscurity to become one of the best teams in the world. Central to this success were two men named Escobar: Andrés‚ the captain and poster child of the National
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Pablo Escobar * Born December 1‚1949 in Antioquia‚ Colombia * He controlled over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the u.s * Earned popularity by sponsoring charity projects and soccer clubs‚ but terror campaigns turned public opinion against him * He began his crime early stealing tombstones while he was young. * He started buying coca paste in Bolivia and Peru‚ refine it and transport it for sale in the us. * His first kill was in 1975 killing Fabio Restrepo taking over his
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Pablo Escobar Introduction Pablo Escobar was a man of power and riches during his time in history. Escobar was listed as the seventh richest man in the world in 1989. Coming from Medellin‚ the second largest city in Colombia‚ Escobar started off as a small time gangster and a car thief. His small time crimes would never amount to what he was going to become. In the late 1970 s Escobar and his cartel became one of the most powerful organized crime organizations. The cartel consolidated the cocaine
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born on the 25th October‚ 1881 in Malaga in Spain. He was the first son of Jose Ruiz y Blasco and Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father was a painter and a professor of art at the School of Crafts and the curator of a local museum. Picasso learnt the basics of art from his father. Picasso also attended the Academy of Arts in Madrid‚ but dropped out within a year of joining it. He made his first trip to Paris in 1900 and loved the city
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but there was one man who was a hero in the eyes of many. Pablo Escobar was a hero to the poor. Escobar gave hope‚ money‚ and jobs to his people. Escobar‚ the famous drug lord‚ started his criminal career at a young age. He was born into poverty and found several illegal ways to make an income. He then became the head of an infamous cartel. By the age of 22‚ Escobar was a millionaire by controlling 80% of the worlds cocaine market. Escobar knew what poverty was. He detested
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During the 1970 and 1990’s‚ Colombia experienced the worst time in all its history. It was the time when Pablo Escobar was alive‚ making society and the government feared from his actions. It’s not a lie to say Escobar‚ made Colombia one of the most dangerous places in the world. Killing Pablo written by Mark Bowden is an investigative- journalism narrative‚ telling the story about the fast rise and fierce fall of one of the wealthiest‚ most violent and dominant criminal in all time. The author
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Colombia has been a very unstable country for the past fifty years. Beginning in the 1960s Marxist guerilla groups formed. The two strongest groups called themselves the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the other was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Making things worse‚ in the 1970s drug trafficking became a huge problem for Colombia. Drug cartels pretty much controlled the country starting in the mid-1970s. By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They
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To a large extent the Medellin Cartel under Pablo Escobar negatively influenced the Columbian society between 1976 and 1993 as many people were killed and the Columbian economy was affected for example the “Dutch disease”. However‚ Pablo and the Medellin cartel also positively influenced the Columbian society by their good deeds such as giving the poor money‚ schools and houses. The Medellin Cartel was a ruthless‚ highly organized and much-feared‚ they built an empire that‚ at its peak‚ made more
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Ron Paul once said‚ “If you want to get rid of all the drug related crime‚ you would have to get rid of all the drug laws”. Although Ron Paul was an American politician‚ the quote is very fitting for one of the most notorious and leading producers of illegal drugs in the world‚ Colombia. Drug production was introduced in Columbia in the 1960s with production of marijuana‚ which was a gateway to the production of Cocaine in the early 1970’s. Why the production‚ and formation of huge Cartels‚ just
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